Effectiveness Of Academic Writing On Research Writing

A writer can influence a reader in many ways using many different strategies. They may be influenced with emotion, logic, and experience. A main way of influencing your reader is to support your claims thoroughly. At the beginning of the semester, and through part of the semester, I would come up with a good main point, but I would lack Good supporting detail to my claims. After being in this class, I realize more that I need to come up with good supporting evidence to back up my claims.

In brief, chapter 4 of The Longman Writer by Judith Nadell and John Lang taught the reader how to support the thesis using evidence. As an addition to chapter 3 “Identifying a Thesis”, chapter 4 emphasizes the importance of supporting the central idea by using enough evidence to convince the reader. Forms of evidence include “examples, facts, details, statistics, personal observation” (41) or anything that furthers the reader’s understanding. The evidence used should achieve three task, which are to justify how you (as the writer) feel, interest the reader, and paint a clear picture. By the same token, all evidence should follow certain characteristics, being: relevant, specific, an adequate amount of support, dramatic enough to alter reader’s feelings to your own, accurate, representative (or relatable), and genuine documentation (articles, encyclopedias, etc.) (45). For the most part, Chapter 4 conduces effective writing with evidence.

"Helping Student Use Textual Source Persuasively" by Maragret Kantz, is a research about the mistakes most of us students make when researching for a paper. "We need a theory-based explanation,one grounded in the findings of the published research on the nature and reasons for our students ' problems with writing persuasive researched papers. To understand how to teach students to write such papers, we also need a better understanding of the demands of synthesis tasks." Like most students like to state the facts given to us by published articles and not finding out the "true" facts of the research. In her research she introduced Shirley. A highly educated sophomore. She comes from an educated family with great reading and writing skills. Shirley wrote a research paper on the Battle of Agincourt. While she did her research and only wrote about the so called fact/truth, she did not receive the academic grade she thought she would since her facts were there. She then presented her concern with her friend Alice. While Shirley defended her sources Alice states "You 're dealing with facts, so there aren 't too many choices. If you want to say something original you either have to talk about the sources or talk about the material..." This would keep Shirley narrative structure of her research paper but also give her an "argument and purpose". There are three causes Kantz states "1) Many students like Shirley misunderstand sources because they read them as stories. 2) Many students

During college, students should be able to research and analyze their sources. It is an important life skill. By using the ability to research, they can find articles with credible, reliable, and relevant information to get the best and dependable research. People who use these techniques will find each of these components essential to the authenticity of an article. These skills would be able to help students and researchers discover trustworthy and reliable sources. Each of the different components in a quality research makes it solid and dependable. Credibility is how believable or truthful the research, and whether the researchers have the credentials to do research in that area. Reliability is the reputation of the article’s source, and if the authors considered any biases. Relevancy is how current the article is or how important it is now. Students conducting research in college need to be able to critically analyze sources for credibility, relevancy, and reliability in order to determine their usefulness in a research paper.

All of the research paper must have reliable sources to prove the thesis that the writer stated in the essay. Why should we use credible sources when writing a research paper? A research paper is like a jury trial. If you’re an attorney trying to convince the jury your client is innocent, you need hard evidence. For example: When you try to convince a jury that your client is innocent by telling them he wasn 't at the crime scene, and you can prove it because his best friend said he wasn 't there. It isn 't going to work. Now conversely, when you try to convince the jury that your client is innocent because he was out of town when the crime happened. You have a hotel receipt, plane tickets, and video evidence that he was nowhere near the area at the time of the offense. That evidence is much more credible and convincing. Writing a research paper is contrasted with the jury trial, we need strong evidence to support our statement.

When using scholarly tone in your writing, it is one of the writing styles for when research is being used. Researching information scholarly tone is important to be clearly and concise, so that the reader actually can follow of the writing and understand what the research is about. I really do not know what my strengths are in my writing. I just really know what my weaknesses is and I just try to correct them. I just want to get better at academic writing and I just need to practice the writing style.

Grammarly and Safe Assign were two writing resources used this week are two online writing aids that I had never used prior to entering Walden. I learned about Grammarly while completing the online orientation and have used it ever since. However, since downloading it from the site it has been a little annoying when I try to use a word document for things like my grocery list because it wants me to correct all my abbreviations. In spite of this, I find it to be a great resource. Safe Assign is similar to Turn it in, which I have used in the past, I find using

When it comes to research papers I found myself always struggling to get started especially with the introduction. This is sometimes most difficult because I always feel the need to want to make my introduction explosive. Starting off strong is what sets the tone for the rest of the paper. This can be challenging since some introductions can span over a page long depending on the length of the writing criteria. You made a great point with stating how the ability to articulate can allow for one to not only express but support their views with agreeing evidence. This is something that takes practice along with trying different strategies to help with being an effective scholarly

The transition from conducting research in high school to conducting research at the college level can be a difficult challenge for many people. High school research is very basic and has a defined end state in most cases; whereas college level writing presents an argument or a claim that interests others and makes them want to know more about your specific claim. In this argument in order to sway a person to what your actual point of view is the author must provide evidence and reasons for their specific claim. It is not simply stating ones opinion and that being the end state of the argument but providing

‘Helping students meet the challenges of academic writing’ by Fernsten and Reda is an interesting study how reflective writing practices can be useful for marginalized students, who are struggling with “negative writer self-identity. The possible causes according to Fernsten & Reda are, “issues such as race, class and gender that are marginalized factors for many basic writers”, in addition to the expectations of the dominant academic culture. However, even though Fernsten & Reda illuminated the ‘potential conflicts’ within the academic world, they have failed to provide conclusive evidence that supports their argument regarding their solution. Their reliance on dated research that provides a one sided historical perspective, may

Credibility has become an expanding issue in our modern life; many people fake different stories about random stuff in order to get financial benefits not caring about the harms of these lies on the community in general. People, especially students, have the passion to look up information about our world from political issues, economics, disasters and many more things. Students are also required to do many researches during their educational journey. We look up information using internet and searching engines; for this reason, we should be careful about what we are reading, and if what had been written is credible or not.

Belief perseverance is the act of resisting change in our ideas and beliefs once they have been created. When there is evidence that leads us to believe in something, it is very hard to shift away from that belief despite any contradictory information about our original views (Nisbitt & Ross, 1980). Belief perseverance interferes with critical

A credible and reliable source can be determined through characteristics in spelling/grammar, citations and examples used within a document, and the author. Once a reliable and credible source has been identified you can use it in any research paper that will help improve your skills as a writer, and make your writing as reliable as the sources that allowed you to write it. When creating a reliable and credible source use ethos and logos to help support your claim, to enhance your authority and provide logical

I have learned and improved many skills during my time in GSW 1110. Before I took this class I was very unconfident in my academic writing abilities; however, I have greatly improved them during this last semester. I have learned how to gather and organize credible information; write to audiences with opposing viewpoints; identify the audience I am writing to and cater my writing toward them; draft texts using personalized strategies; use grammar, punctuation, and mechanics to make my writing more interesting; and think critically to synthesize multiple points of view. I believe the skills I have learned and refined will allow me to move on to further college writing classes, as well as help me for the rest of my life at work and in the community.

Over the course of this past semester, my ability to write has improved tremendously. Prior to undertaking this course, my expertise in writing was not as fine-tuned as it should have been. I had never previously been enrolled in a class specifically tailored to writing-- which was quite clear. Upon reading my past works, it becomes apparent that my writing style consisted of fluff, small words, and inconsistently structured sentences. These problems have, for the most part, been remedied with the coursework I have tackled in College Writing. Rather than long, drawn out papers that take an eternity to reach the primary point, my recent work is much nicer in terms of composition and grammar. I credit these improvements to the three primary